12 March 2013

My On-Again, Off-Again Love Affair With Mini Albums

This month at write.click.scrapbook it's all about mini-albums.
We call it March Mini Madness, and it's the third year we've run it. I've been making mini-albums, or rather mini books for years, but my feelings for them run hot and cold. I love the idea of making smaller books to document a particular theme or event, but when I first started making them, I would quickly get frustrated, or rather bored, with doing all these similar pages, and would find it hard to finish them. Eventually I noticed that I would run out of steam after about 6 to 8 pages, and it struck me, duh, that I should just make them smaller.

And that's when the real love affair began. I have a bin stuffed full of blank mini-books, plus plain chipboard covers to show for this love. I went through the clear mini-album phase too (didn't we all?), and happily made it out the other side. Oh and remember paper bag albums?! Yeah, I made me a few of those too.

The last few years I have preferred to make my minis from scratch though, either with my Bind-it-All, using binder rings, or coming up with my own stitched or glued bindings. That way I can control the exact size, and number of pages I want.